Testing knowledge: Consensus reached on revamping examination system
ISLAMABAD: In a first, a Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), a Inter-Board Committee of chairmen (IBCC) and a Education Boards (EB) have reached accord over reforming a existent hearing system.
The accord was reached during a final event of a three-day inhabitant discussion on improving a delegate propagandize and aloft delegate propagandize systems.
During a session, a member for a 3 vital institutions endorsed that a comment systems should simulate a artistic abilities of students.
Earlier, Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal called for inculcating creativity, creation and vicious meditative among students by an effective hearing system.
Iqbal was of a perspective that exams from primary to aloft preparation should be prolific to accommodate inhabitant objectives. Moreover, he remarkable that a prevalent hearing complement in a nation was formed on contrast a children’s memory instead of judging them by a believe and skills that they had acquired as a outcome of a education.
The apportion celebrated that a stream preparation and hearing complement usually disseminates information rather than enlivening students to find new avenues of believe by regulating investigate methods.
In this regard, Iqbal called for an in-depth research of a stream hearing complement and stressed a need to indicate out a weaknesses and move brazen proposals for a improvement.
He combined that a existent hearing complement contingency be reformed to safeguard standardisation in preparation and called for creation continual alleviation in hearing complement by training from a practice of complicated universe and to make it some-more practical.
To assistance with this, Iqbal announced that a indication training hospital would be set adult in Islamabad that would capacitate teachers to familiarise themselves with a latest training trends in a margin of educational.
Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada hoped that a discussion would now be an annual underline to assistance urge education.
AIOU Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Shahid Siddiqui positive that a AIOU will yield logistic support for this purpose.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 28th, 2017.
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